Selection of an Integrated Security Area for locating a State Military Police Station based on MCDM/A method

• Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) pp. 1530 - 1534
• Main Authors: Silva, Lucio Camara e, de Franca Dantas Daher, Suzana, Santiago, Katarina Tatiana Marques, Costa, Ana Paula Cabral Seixas
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-10-2019
• Subjects: Additives; Decision making; FITradeoff; Law enforcement; location problem; multicriteria decision support system; public security; Security; Sociology; Statistics; Switched mode power supplies
• ISSN: 2577-1655
• DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2019.8914307

Location problems consist of determining the proper placement of an infrastructure component in an area of interest while taking the preferences of decision makers (DMs) and existing constraints into account. Different methodologies have been used to support location problems. In public security problems, selecting an appropriate location for a police station considering economic, social, criminal and political issues is still an open field of research. This problem may be represented by different (and somehow conflicting) criteria, depending on DMs' different operational and strategic points of view. Thus, this paper proposes the use of the FITradeoff elicitation procedure to support a DM in selecting a specific area/region to locate a new State Military Police Station (SMPS) in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. The contribution of this study to existing literature is two-fold. First, to support DMs in determining which area should receive a new SMPS using a multicriteria approach based on an interactive and flexible tradeoff method, and secondly, to provide to public policy developers a well-structured model to support making decisions on these kinds of problems.